jh901 wrote: > > > 2) I'm using the coax output of the Transporter for now, but I'm > switching to AES since the rest of my system is balanced. Are any of > the Transporter outs considered superior (for sound quality)? Most > importantly, is the digital output from the Transporter being clocked by > the Cary? (I get confused about "Master/Slave") > > Josh
There is no way to tell which connection method is going to be the best before hand, you just have to try them. There are far to many variables in implementation and cables to make generic judgements. No, the transporter is not being clocked by the Cary, it's a one way connection between the Transporter and the Cary. IF the Cary had a word clock output the Transporter could be slaved to it, but from reading the website I see no mention made of a wordclock output. So most likely there is a traditional receiver in the Cary which uses a PLL to extract the clock from the digital signal coming from the Transporter. This is almost guaranteed to be significantly higher jiter than the internal clock in the Cary. The sales literature spends time talking about how low jitter the internal clock is, but nothing about how good the input receiver is, so it's probably fairly generic. (If a company has spent effort making a very low jitter receiver they usually make a big deal about it, the Cary does not) The upshot is that there is not a lot you can do about it, try the three different connection methods and see what you like the best, stick with that. I am the one who is not particularly fond of AES/EBU, sometimes it can sound the best, but my experience has been that in a lot of cases it is NOT the best sounding interface. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95476 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
